* Posts by Sarah Bee

2823 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Jan 2008

Armed police swoop on MP3-packing mechanic

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Hmmm

He really should have refused the DNA swab. You can do that, you know. There's very little information you are obliged to give the police when you are arrested, although they will phrase their entreaties in such a way as to make it sound like you have no choice, and if you're a decent law-abiding type you're likely to be dazed and anxious to be a good citizen and do as they tell you. Polite refusal just means you might have an hour or two longer in the cell, but better that than ending up on the database for something you didn't do.

Calls to ban hoodie-busting sonic weapon

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @Francis Fish

Yeah, but when's the last time a week went by without stories of adults attacking/murdering each other?

Hate to say it, but adults can be anti-social too, and often are. Some middle-aged bloke took a bag of rubbish out of his car and dropped it in my street, practically at my feet. I picked it up and gave him a good glower. He looked genuinely surprised. Of course when a couple of 20-somethings dropped a load of burger detritus in same spot I put my head down and kept walking, and if it had been teenagers I would have walked even faster, but the point remains that selfish no-good asshats come in all sizes.

ISPs demand record biz pays up if cut-off P2P users sue

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: The assumption...

Britney's last album is brill. So there.

Perens: 'Badgeware' threat to open source's next decade

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Loose canon?

Heh. Thank you, Spleen. If only every cursed typo could be offset by such a skit. Fixed now.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)
Happy

Release the doves/balloons/hounds

Congratulations to amanfromMars on posting his 1000th comment. We never thought we'd see the day!*

* Yeah we did.

US man threatens TV repairman with shotgun

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

"No, not 'arb'!"

"@Sarah Bee: Why do you get to use The Reg Vulture as your icon, unless you work there. And if you do, why are you making such arb comments on the articles?"

I do work here. At least, I show up and after a bit they give me money, although that may just be a polite hint for me to go away.

I make no further response to a man who plays so fast and loose with abbrevs.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: More common than you might think....

*hums 'Wichitar Lineman' loudly to blot out thoughts of unneccessary dog death*

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Please god

No more Vista jokes.

Yahoo! formally! rejects! Microsoft! offer!

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: O dear!

Funny or not, it is The Rules. THE RULES.

(Sorry, I mean 'it are'.)

Billg quits Facebook

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: fake friends

"Just goes to show how daft the 'friends' concept is on social networking sites. People collect them as badges of honour to validate their pitiful existence and give meaning to their empty, howling souls."

Ah, come on, we've all got to do something to 'give meaning to our empty, howling souls'. Some of us knit, some of us engage in charity work, some of us rack up a healthy number of postings on website comment threads complaining about stuff. Diff'rent strokes.

RIAA chief calls for copyright filters on PCs

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: "The guy is a prick "

Well, 'acceptable' is relative, y'know, and it varies and all that. Sometimes we like to let you all fight it out. One man's anonymous coward is another's, er, freetard fighter.

Or something.

Britt Ekland on board for 'Wicker Man 2'

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @Karl and Sarah

Of course of course. I was clearly boggle-brained by the morning's moderating.

And the arse.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: US v Brit prudishness

"Sorry."

That was ever so heated, Karl. Have you been looking at arses too long today?

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: NSFW?

Are you suggesting the British are arse-averse?

(Really though, some people's work filters will balk at the sight of a shapely knee, so we err on the side of caution, like the giant Victorian prudes we are.)

US navy-v-dolphins judge says Bush can't overrule her

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @Chris W

Heh. Apparently so.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=335026&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source

I would have posted this earlier but I got lost coming back from the shops.

Cable cutter nutters chase underwater conspiracies

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Pedant alert!

Nope. Tinfoil Dawn. It is the new Thing. Get with it. We are doing t-shirts.

Ton-up electric Reliant Robin offered for '09

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Oh FFS.

Yeah, but it's the reference everyone defaults to and so it's perfectly legit to use it, part of the shared consciousness and that. And the inference of crappiness is integral, surely. Citing the Morgan three-wheeler wouldn't... quite work. Most people wouldn't have heard of it. It's like referring to something other than Heinz when you meanz beanz.

Mmm, beanz.

Computer maker to focus on computers

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Dear Anonymous

That was my doing, not Bill's, and to that end I refer you to this.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/26/mobe_mobe_mobe/

Any further questions?

Mobe mobe mobey mobe. Mobe.

Brits can't distinguish history from the TV listings

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Eleanor Rigby...

Yeah, that's right. I'm an official censor. I have a lovely grey uniform with shiny buttons and everything. Sometimes the thrill of the power that I have is so great, I have to sit down.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

sigh

'Oh dear. For a sub-editor that's really not good enough. The word you are looking for is 'nicely'. It's a member of the rapidly-disappearing family of adverbs. The majority of them end in -ly, and they describe or modify verbs, advectives and (not many people know this) other adverbs.

Grammar Police'

Oh dear indeed. Rules, knowing when to break them, etc. I believe 'play nice' is a commonly-used phrase, Mr Police, a bit like 'do the math', although of course that infuriates some pedants. Next time I'll use inverted commas if it please you*. Although, actually, come to think of it, my job isn't to please you... at least, not yet. Anyway, rest assured this grandmother knows only too well how to suck eggs.

Now, don't make me break into a stream of advective.

*Don't even start on that one.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Who is Sarah Bee?

Heh. All of the above.

I sub-edit, write and make sure you lot all play nice.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: jesus

What? Are you suggesting He is a fictional character? Blasphemy! etc.

Veggies a 'perversion of nature': Official

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @anonymous coward who wants to know about rabbit biology

Rats can't vomit either. And I'm not sure giraffes can, either. Anyone?